Kakashi had imagined this battle as merely getting as close to actual combat as possible. But being close to actual combat wasn't the same as actual combat. After all, someone could be on the verge of death without actually dying. Yet now, he seemed to be about to really die.
Although Kakashi had appeared to use one killing move after another when attacking Yuhara, that was because he knew the killing moves in an ordinary ninja's repertoire couldn't even penetrate Yuhara's defenses.
Who would have thought that Yuhara would suddenly hit him with a move like this? It had nearly left Kakashi unable to respond.
Kakashi knew that this Mercury Lamp assault was one of Yuhara's usual techniques. Its flight speed wasn't particularly outstanding, but its attack range was enough to make up for that.
"Can I dodge it with Raikiri? No, there's no time..."
Kakashi instinctively prepared to dodge in the way he was most accustomed to. However, even the blinding speed that could sever falling lightning seemed insufficiently swift at this moment. After all, lightning could be twenty kilometers long, but it couldn't possibly be ten meters thick.
Kakashi therefore had to move even faster than his maximum speed to evade this fatal blow. When the silver threads, carrying a bone-deep chill, blossomed outward, the world in his eyes seemed to come to a standstill.
Concentrate Chakra, select the landing point, read the spatial coordinates, and jump... Look, the logic behind using the Flying Thunder God Technique was nothing more than that. It was simple enough to rival the question, "How many steps does it take to put an elephant in a refrigerator?"
When the "Mercury Lamp" filled the space before Yuhara, Kakashi's figure had already vanished. Yuhara halted, ignoring the attack that had completely missed, and turned